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Stoneage
The Archbishop of Canterbury slammed Amazon and labelled the online giant "leeches" at a meeting in Manchester. The Archbishop continued:
“Not paying taxes speaks of the absence of commitment to our shared humanity, to solidarity and justice. If you earn money from a community, you should pay your share of tax to that community."
"When vast companies like Amazon, and other online traders, can get away with paying almost nothing in tax, there is something wrong with the tax system."
“Then they complain of an undertrained workforce, from the education they have not paid for, and pay almost nothing for apprenticeships."
And added:
"The gig economy, zero-hours contracts, is nothing new, it is simply the reincarnation of an ancient evil."
We have had a similar debate in Sweden (and the EU) about Facebook. I think it's gallant of the Archbishop to stand up for the common man and the welfare state her. What do you think?
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Rocky Dijon
I thought this thread was going to be the salacious tale of the Archbishop's seven foot warrior girlfriend. It would make a nice change of pace.
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diverseharmonics
This has to do with the Stones how?.....
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Nate
The church collects money from people and doesn’t pay tax and secondly the church has major financial investments in amazon.
Nate
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Nate
The church collects money from people and doesn’t pay tax and secondly the church has major financial investments in amazon.
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Nate
The church collects money from people and doesn’t pay tax and secondly the church has major financial investments in amazon.
Nate
The CoE has a huge array of business interests! It owns a couple of shopping centres and It had shares in Wonga
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Stoneage
Maybe I'm aiming to high with this? The Pareto principle? So, I will try to narrow it down.
The Archbishop is trying to point out evil on earth, instead of in heaven this time around. By doing that his words are relevant for once. Evil is done by large trans-global companies like Amazon, Google or Facebook. Employees on Amazon, for example, are paid minimum wages that they can't live on. Employees aren't allowed toilet breaks so they have to pee in bottles. At the same time Amazon are avoiding taxes by locating their company to the tax heaven country Luxembourg.
Of course I'm aware that I'm speaking to deaf ears here. In today's neo-liberal society greed is the only virtue left. And Mammon is worshiped day in and day out. That is why I admire the Archbishop's speech here.
It's a very christian thing to do...
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Nate
The church collects money from people and doesn’t pay tax and secondly the church has major financial investments in amazon.
Nate
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diverseharmonics
This has to do with the Stones how?.....
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Nate
The church collects money from people and doesn’t pay tax and secondly the church has major financial investments in amazon.
Nate
Would you specify? Which "church" you mean? What are your references?
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Stoneage
2) The company The Rolling Stones are known tax evaders themselves. Sir Michael is a neo-liberal and hates to pay taxes. Neither as a private citizen or via his company. Hence "Exile on Main Street" and hence offices in the Netherlands for tax evasion purposes (Promotone BV).